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I LIKE GRAHAM PLATNER. I group him together with Zohran Mamdani, James Talarico, Jasmine Crockett, and Chicago’s Governor J.B. Pritzker. These individuals are the antidote to the political maelstrom the US finds itself in now. All of them are branded as communists and advocates of young children being forced into sex change operations. So you know there’s substance to their platforms.
Whenever despair sets in, I think of people like these and remember that the political world, for all its fuckery, still produces the occasional genuine article. Though I can never quite shake Lao Tzu’s observation that the only people fit to hold power are the ones who never wanted it. 😬
What’s more alarming than Trump’s second reign in the White House are the individuals who reelected him. Apparently they are still out there, milling about a la George Romero’s classic horror film Dawn of the Dead. When I see Trump’s approval rating at 34%, I’m like: why is there even 34%? Who are these people? Why isn’t it like 8%—or zero? Or as Elton John once sang: Less than zero.
The ‘another John Fetterman’ worry foisted on Platner is precisely the kind of reflexive, bumper-sticker thinking that passes for political analysis these days. Platner is a T-shirt-wearing, gruff dude, so, of course, he’ll have a brain aneurysm and turn into a quisling.
The US population has never been stupider. This fact must be acknowledged if we are to come to terms with the whys and the wherefores of Trump and the MAGA-ites. You can’t blame Obama’s Blackness. You can’t blame the Democratic Party (although I do). Furthermore, you can’t blame planetary transits. We must acknowledge our collective ignorance. As they say in 12-Step: “You can't solve a problem you won't admit you have.”
Anyway, check out Platner’s horoscope. There is no birth time, so ignore the angles. Though the Moon is positioned just so to guarantee its Scorpio placement.
Before I sign off, I want to introduce you to Robert Anderson, a new contributor to WOODRUFF. Robert is the creator of Archetypal Outlook, a Substack that explores news and culture through the lens of archetypal astrology. Drawing on the work of Richard Tarnas, Robert’s writing blends in-depth research with up-to-the-minute insights into current affairs. His first post appears tomorrow.
Love,
Opening photograph of Platner via Wikipedia Commons. Public Domain.
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